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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: 25296@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25296: fully functional desktop installation
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:31:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vag2857m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lggzdzh9.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:26:58 +0100")

Hi,

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> skribis:

> IMHO Guix should mimic what Debian is doing in this particular case.
> Meaning having desktop packages that contain a “full” desktop with
> default applications for common usages.
>
> This would consist in adding ‘libreoffice’ and replacing ‘epiphany’ with
> ‘icecat’ in the ‘gnome’ package.  Additionally a ‘gnome-core’ package
> (or ‘gnome-minimal’ which seems to be the name convention chosen by
> Guix) could be created with the minimal set of packages required to have
> a working GNOME desktop, for OCD people that don't like having unused
> packages installed.

Hmm, OK.  Do you think it’s too much to ask, given the current audience
(tinkerers), to add those packages to their config, or to install them
with “guix package -i”?

Admittedly this is a very subjective issue.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-16 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-29 22:10 bug#25296: fully functional desktop installation Quiliro
2017-01-02 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]   ` <20170108041145.6d9a5cbc@riseup.net>
2017-01-08 10:16     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-09 11:11       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-14 13:34   ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-01-14 21:53     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-15 13:26       ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-01-15 13:49         ` myglc2
2018-01-16 10:31         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-01-16 11:09           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-16 13:59             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17  7:09               ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-17  8:48                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-16 11:34           ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-01-16 13:57             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-16 15:40           ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-01-17  9:56       ` Oleg Pykhalov

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